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to forecast future earnings accurately. This suggests that additional information is released during conference calls …. The reduction in forecast error is economically significant and larger in magnitude when compared to results for the US …
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The mandatory adoption of IFRS by many countries worldwide fuels the expectation that financial accounting information might become more comparable across countries. This expectation is opposed to an alternative view that stresses the importance of incentives in shaping accounting information....
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Despite the importance of intellectual capital (IC), accounting standards are conservative concerning the capitalization of IC as assets. Thus, intangible-intensive firms disclose additional IC information, e.g. in their annual reports. The market-to-book value (MBV) ratio is regarded as an...
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This paper examines both the materiality of intangibles and the related disclosure quality under IFRS in the notes of firms on the German benchmark stock index DAX during the four-year period 2008-2011. As proxies, we use the relation of intangibles-to-equity (materiality) and a disclosure index...
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Based on the ongoing disclosure overload debate, this paper investigates how deregulation-driven decreases in quarterly disclosure affect information asymmetry. We exploit a German setting in which the minimum content requirements for quarterly reporting have been reduced for firms listed in the...
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Before 2007, in Germany was the enforcement of the publication of financial statements very weak and disclosure rates were low. Afterwards, a new area of the publicity of financial statements began. Based on an EU-directive the disclosure of financial statements was transferred into a new...
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In this study, we examine the market reaction to ad hoc disclosures, a form of early disclosure unique to Germany, associated with periodic financial reports using data from the German stock market for the period 2003--2009. Although the immediate release of ad hoc disclosures is mandatory if...
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Several recent empirical papers assert that the decision to disclose an earnings forecast shortly before the actual … dynamic model of voluntary disclosure, we show that the decision to disclose a short-term earnings forecast reveals managers … decision to disclose a short-term earnings forecast predicts earnings three years beyond the forecasted period, and that the …
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